This week, it's Equinox Terre again, in a rather ugly yellow jacket! I don't know why I thought this colour scheme would be nice but I was wrong...It's a Fine Point pen and Broad Chisel Tip (watercolour) picture. The first time I coloured it, I reversed the jacket and shirt colours. Since I didn't want to redo the background, I erased them as carefully as possible and repainted. As such, the jacket has an odd border around it. :\ I'll remember better next time...

As for the new title, I spent a VERY long time on it only to discover that the cool variable width lines really don't show up very well at 50% size (the size I scale everything to...) Doh! No mention of the season (other than the snow) or year in it, just a peaceful picture. Smooth ink pen and watercolour.

This is the final gallery of the century! Weird.

This picture was drawn with 2B pencil and watercoloured. What a surprise. As for the colour of her cap, I don't actually know if it's red or white. Maybe she has two hats? You'll also notice that her eyestyle is different from everyone else's. That's one reason I have a hard time drawing her. As it is, in this CG, here eyes aren't quite right. That's about it.

It's really coincidental because it actually just snowed on Wednesday, so I couldn't have done this CG any earlier. :}

As one might imagine, this week's CG isn't terribly exciting because well, there are other things I have to do, aren't there? I know, some people plan ahead for New Year's CGs but...I kind of forgot. Oops. It's a rather quick pen sketch + watercolour. Somehow, it turned out to be larger than some of the other recent pictures. I even sliced off 50 pixels from the right and bottom. I don't know what I was thinking (or if I was) when I was colouring it but it looked all right at the time...

See you next year!

This week, we see Rhyme Fleuve, whom I haven't drawn in years. I was rather against having two elves in the gallery one after another but I was paging through characters I hadn't drawn in a while and both Rhyme and Rita came up. So...

I think Rhyme has one of my more interesting clothing designs. However, since I'm so out of practice with her, the picture didn't turn out as well as hoped. I thought it was all right when I originally did it but right now, I think her face is way too big. :\ I think a problem is that when I CG, I tend to zoom in too far and focus on minutiae (which is kind of odd, since I don't have a particularly detailed style...), rather than look at how everything fits together in a whole sense. That's at least one of my problems.

Hmm. I don't know who I'm gonna do for next week...

Ah, well. This week's picture is a bit simpler than last week's in terms of colouring but the design too longer because I had no clue what she really looks like, other than a few very old sketches. I'm also very bad at skirts, I've found. ^_^; I really ought to dedicate more time to these pictures... :\

Well, now that I've scared everyone off by drawing very pathetically, I have sat myself down and given myself a good talking-to. I made up my mind to spend longer on the pencils because if I have bad pencils, no amount of effort at the computer will help.

On Wednesday, I noticed it was Crys' birthday. Seeing as how I've been struggling on and off to make a new WWWH picture for her, I thought I might as well try to do her for the CG this week. Strangely, it turned out being a rather WWWH-esque picture! I taught myself to ignore the unimportant lines on the scan and so, I don't have to worry so much about cleaning up the picture before scanning. Therefore, I don't have to spend so much time on touch-up and can work on the actual picture itself, even leaving guidelines in for myself when I CG it. How nice.

I'm hoping to maintain some semblence of quality...

This week's CG was done with 2B pencil and watercolour. For her hair, I used a lot more overlapping than I usually do, in order to more accurately approximate the variances in her hair colour. In practice, everything blends together... :\ I noticed that my most recent pictures of Crys have tried to portray her as 'cool.' (Whether or not I actually succeeded isn't the point. ^_^; ) So, this time, I tried to go for more of a friendly, cuter look. Additionally, it was my intention to make it some kind of winter scene because it's reaaaaaaaly cold here right now and it snowed recently. But, I chickened out. I'm scared of backgrounds. ;)

In the original 2B pencil picture, the background it white. Mysteriously, when Graphic Workshop for Windows remapped the colour depth to only 4 colours, the white became pink. (I know about this problem but still recommend their products.) Sadly, PC Painter Classic's pencil isn't very convincing. :\

I really liked this picture for some reason. As I look on it now, I wonder why I thought it was so good. I guess it has to do with how bad the _day_ was. But I'm feeling much better now. So next week, let's see what I can come up with, shall we?

I did some rather different things with this title. For one, I actually pencilled in different colours. It's not so noticeable since I coloured it but Dusk was pencilled in dark blue and the dragon was done in dark green. Next, I watercoloured with very bright colours (100% saturation), rather sloppily. I was then going to shift the pencil lines a bit and leave it like that, making it look like a poorly-aligned print. What ended up happening was that I then added more subdued colours and shaded away. In order to shed some of the paint that ran over the lines, I used white paint to partially block out the errors. The result is surprisingly much better than the original pencils seemed to be. There are a few points I would have liked to fix but on the whole, I'm pleased.

This week's CG is Jason A...I felt very unnerved when I noticed that I'd done Melanie last week and that it was Jason this week. The only reason I'd picked him was because there had been too many girls/elves in the gallery so far! Sigh...There's no significance behind this.

I seem to have drawn Jason older than usual. It was a rather fun picture to do. After the serious "detail" work of the Title, this was a nice change of pace. Haphazard "Fine Point Pen" drawing. After last week's PC picture, I was pleasantly surprised by how natural the Mac mouse is. The lines flow much better than on the PC and it was much easier to do, overall.

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After staring at monitors for this long, I think I'd better take a break before playing with my Dreamcast. ;)

This time, it's 2B pencil and felt pen: felt marker. So, I got to do a scribblier style. I bet I'll go back to a normal type next week. This picture is 100% of its working size, just because I felt like it.

I hope all of you get to spend time with whoever's special to you.
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However! Because that one was CGed in Photoshop, it's not coloured very well. (Besides the fact that I've got at least slightly better.) Thus, I decided to spend "a lot" of time colouring this one. In fact, I coloured it was longer than I inked it. (Yep, 'fine point' pen.) I coloured the whole picture with the 'small watercolor' brush. I didn't change the size at all. Amazingly, I got it coloured pretty closely. Sigh. If only I'd spent a bit more time on the pencils. Actually, in the picture, I drew 5 fingers on her right hand. The problem being, of course, that I ought to have drawn 4. So, I digitally changed the extra finger into her thumb. Doh...must learn how to count. The wrinkle on her right inner leg was coloured oddly and now, it looks like a goofy splotch. Bizarre. It looked fine before. :\ Yep, it took a lot of time to colour. Was it worth is? Dunno.

Kain's the kind of girl who should always be drawn in pencil.